Aids Quote by Charles Darwin

Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the…

— Mark Pagel

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial…

— Charles Darwin

“The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction—the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate, bond, cooperate,…

— Edward O. Wilson

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

— Charles Darwin

“Our entire notion of good and bad, our whole landscape of feelings—fear, lust, love, and the many other feelings, salient and subtle, that inform…

— Robert Wright

“Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those who had…

— Bruce D. Perry

“Our genetic dispositions have a basis here- dispositions to dominate and to herd together for the sake of survival, to wander alone in hope…

— Richard Leo

Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and,…

— Lord Chesterfield

“This trait has direct animal precursors – namely, the contests between competing individuals and groups that, in many species besides our own, may be…

— Jared Diamond

It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other…

— Sharon Gannon

The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of…

— Frans de Waal

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that…

— Ben Bernanke